Man, woman dead in Houston-area murder-suicide

Posted: August 28, 2014 - 6:13am

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Authorities say a man fatally shot his girlfriend and then killed himself as she prepared to move out of their Houston-area home.

The Houston Chronicle reports that police went to the home Wednesday after family members said the man was in a heated argument with his girlfriend when he told them to leave or he would start shooting. Houston police spokesman John Cannon says that as the relatives left, they "heard a number of gunshots."

Police called for the SWAT unit because the man was thought to be barricaded inside the house. But after officers could not contact the man or woman, SWAT officers forced open the back door and found the bodies.

Authorities did not identify the man or the woman but said they were both adults.